In this video you will learn a versatile method for cropping images in Adobe Illustrator CS6 and CS5. Using opacity masks allows you to retain the area of the image you cropped out, modify the clipping path later, and use complex blending modes, transparencies, and knockout groups.

Blending is a great way to create a special effect. Learn what blending is and the shortcut for quickly finding the best blend mode. Then watch a quick project from start to finish that makes an ordinary photo look artistic.

Kush gives an overview of the steps he took - including layering with screen blending mode - to create a cool photo composite of light trails left behind by remote controlled quadcopters dancing in step with a dancer, using a Sony Alpha 7R DSLR camera and Adobe Photoshop CC running on a Vaio Flip 15 a large screen convertible tablet/laptop device with NFC connectivity.
See Drone dance video here

Creative usage of the Channel Combiner effect with the Difference blending mode to create a short intro inside After Effects.
Taken from one of my sessions at NAB 2014 at Post|Production World
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Stock footgae used in this tutorial are courtesy of VideoBlocks.com

Sometimes you want to stabilize only part of a video clip and this tutorial will show you how to “steal” the auto scale properties from the Warp Stabilizer and apply it to another part of a clip to create two clips that blend seamlessly. This will work in both Premiere Pro or After Effects.

In this closing video, Russell Brown will cover some of his final words of wisdom for venturing into the world of aerial photography. He will also encourage all his viewers to share their aerial photos on his Facebook page. Search for Russell Preston Brown and become his friend today.

Lieve is Civil engineer (ir.) and professional musician. After years of research in stability of shell constructions she started as a college lecturer in departments of Construction/Real Estate, teaching several technical courses and ICT. In Flanders she is known as a specialist in project management. blended learning and eLearning. As head of the department of Construction she introduced new pedagogical methodologies.

This tutorial discusses the process of capturing, and processing, GoPro aerial images and turning them into a stitched vertical panorama. The results are an unusual blending of mutiple perspectives in one image.

Learn how to create a color wash over a black-and-white image in Photoshop. Explore working with gradient fill layers, modifying gradients in the Gradient Editor, creating and working with gradient presets, and blending two gradients together to build up an effective color wash. Learn more from the full course on lynda.com.

The Curves adjustment in Photoshop allows you advanced control over the midtones in your images. Learn the basics of modifying curves and see how to increase contrast and avoid posterization. Also explore Curves presets and the basics of blend modes. Learn more from the full course on lynda.com.

In this movie, learn how to apply transparency to any object in InDesign CC. You will see how to adjust opacity and work with blend modes in the Effects panel. Learn more from the full course on lynda.com.

Join Ethan Malasky, Adobe senior engineering manager, for a fun, immersive presentation in which he "interacts" with cartoonish characters to illustrate the various graphical features found on the web today and the ones coming soon. Malasky will cover:• The history of the graphical web• The background and details behind SVG, Canvas, and WebGL• Next-generation CSS features like CSS Shaders, Compositing, and Blending

Technically, even a straight cut is a transition, but for video editing, we usually think of a transition as a special effect than blends one image into another. This lesson shows you how to add, adjust, and remove special transition effects.

In yet another user requested episode, Colin takes you back to 1994 and shows you all the things your missing if you’ve been flattening, and rasterizing your complex Photoshop layers just to get them to work in FinaCut Pro 7. You might be amazed to see that lots has changed since 1994, including Layer Styles that instantly update and give you complete creative freedom!

Discover some creative new ways to use the new features found in the Contend Aware Move Tool. This tutorial will go beyond the basics and introduce you to some very creative ways to move and extend your images.

Many advanced photographers are shooting multiple exposures these days in an attempt to blend them together and achieve the perfect composition. In this episode, Colin will reveal a simple one-click feature that will do all the work for you and the result looks like the same as if you took hours to paint a complex Layer Mask.

Spend less time and effort to liven up your courses. Choose from attractive, professionally designed themes that blend backgrounds, styles, fonts, and layouts. Apply them across projects to maintain a consistent look and feel. Customize themes to suit your requirements.

In this video we'll explore Illustrator's Appearance panel. This panel not only lets you make changes to properties like opacity, blending mode, stroke, and fill, it also gives you powerful control over the effects you apply to objects.

Once again a customer question turns into an episode with the idea of something Colin calls Super Zoom. Colin shows you how to combine a high resolution still image with video so the camera can zoom into macro levels without the image getting pixelated. Using After Effects motion reframes and color correction, this can be achieved to create a seamless blend between video and a still.

Learn how tablet publications are reinventing the brand advertising paradigm by blending the design fidelity and expression of a print advertisement with interactivity that captivates readers. Brand advertisers to date have grappled with templatized, commoditized web design offering limited brand expression — but now digital publications allow an immersive experience that drives not only consumer engagement, but also business results. You'll hear from a leading brand advertiser how digital marketers and ad agencies can leverage this greater engagement with readers. Publishers and advertisers alike will be inspired about adding more avenues for readers to communicate and connect.

No need for expensive contact lenses, we’ll show you how to use the incredible planar tracker in mocha AE to track your eyes, export them as a Mocha shape layer and apply effects in After Effects to create that “white iris of the zombie” look. Another added feature in this episode is how to use Refine Matte to control the feather, spread and choke of the mocha shape layer. This effect gives you control of how much of the original iris shows around the edge stopping the new white iris from blending into the rest of the eye.

Video Highlights: See how to make unwanted elements vanish with one stroke of the enhanced Spot Healing Brush, which beautifully blends even the most complex background. Also, instantly fix old or torn photos so you can make new prints.

In this Episode of The Complete Picture Julieanne demonstrates how to create a single vector logo out of multiple type and shape layers, specify a consistent size, apply a style and save the entire creation as a Tool Preset! In addition, Julieanne shows how to add a scan of your signature to any photograph with a simple change of a layer blend mode.

We create a fantastic time-lapse using Photoshop CS5 Extended. Thanks to the images from James at www.deepspaceplace.com. Unfortunately he set the white balance on Auto and it needed to be fixed. Not as easy as you would think! We use the color blend mode, and the blend if sliders to fix it. But we also keep the subtle color of the planets.

Discover the wonders of Overlay and Hard Light for special blending techniques when working with portrait images. Special thanks to professional photographer Joel Grimes, and the talented modeling of Jessica Mion, and Moses Sumney.

In this episode of the Complete Picture, Julieanne demonstrates several ways to use leading lines in order to guide a viewer’s eye through an image including leading towards the primary subject, keeping movement within the frame, and adding tension to a composition.

In this Episode of the Complete Picture Julieanne discusses how the addition of color as well as supporting imagery can help reinforce the mood and message of a composite image that a single photograph may fail to do on it’s own.

Watch how Illustrator and After Effects can be used together to create organic animations using simple masks copied and pasted between the two applications. Also see how the Twirl tool in Illustrator can be used to distort paths and make it look as if “tendrils” are growing outward. This all comes together in After Effects by setting the first vertex and ensuring your blended masks don’t flip inside out.

In this Episode of the Complete Picture Julieanne reveals some basic compositing techniques in Photoshop CS5 that she used to illustrate the feeling and mood of Iceland. Discover how easy it is to combine multiple images together using Layers, masking, blend modes, and transparency in Photoshop CS5.

Learn how to blend the digital and the physical from natural/accurate color definitions to "presses" as a service. Nathan Moroney, color scientist for Hewlett Packard Labs, will present ways to take your beautiful digital work to tangible, physical creations. Moroney will explore emerging color print technologies ranging from pixels with color names to novel finishing techniques and print substrates.

David Kelley talks about that middle ground where some of the best creative agencies live. Using tools like Adobe Illustrator to build better User eXperiences for Silverlight and WPF, from marketing Brand Jordan to retail.

The vast majority of video professionals use Adobe Photoshop software to help them create and enhance visual effects and motion graphics, or to prepare still images and text for inclusion in video projects. With new Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can leverage cross‐platform 64‐bit support, the unrivaled Photoshop image‐editing toolset, and Adobe 3D Forge—the powerful Photoshop 3D engine that enables you to create and enhance 3D and motion‐based content. Plus, you can enjoy tighter integration with Adobe tools you use every day, including Adobe After Effects CS5, and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. Realistically blend colors on canvas with the new Mixer Brush, and paint on 2D and 3D artwork more naturally using lifelike Bristle Tips. Remove an image element, and let Content‐Aware Fill intelligently replace the missing pixels.Use new Exposure Merge technology to create photorealistic or wildly surreal 32-bit HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. Take advantage of new Adobe Repoussé technology to easily create 3D artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask. And so much more.

New in Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended - Easily take your imagery and designs in new artistic directions with natural and realistic painting effects. The new Mixer Brush lets you define multiple colors on a single tip to paint with subtle color blends, or you can use a dry brush to blend a photo’s colors to create a beautiful painting. New Bristle Tips enable you to easily paint with lifelike, naturally textured brush strokes using defined bristle properties like shape, length, and stiffness, and you can experiment away by adding Bristle Tips to a variety of Photoshop brush tools.

Adobe Photoshop software is the tool of choice for designers and web professionals. Now with Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can continue to push the boundaries of traditional digital imaging. Realistically blend colors on canvas with the new Mixer Brush. Create superior composites for print or web layouts with new technology that makes it easy to select even the trickiest image elements, like hair. Remove an image element, and let Content‐Aware Fill intelligently replace the missing pixels. Easily create 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask using new Adobe Repoussé technology. Use new Exposure Merge technology to create photo realistic or wildly surreal 32-bit HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. And import animated GIFs. Plus so much more.

Mike shows you a trick he learned from Russell Browns at Adobe Max; how to take a Camera Raw image of a Samurai Warrior shot on a green screen background and cut him out using masks and Hue Saturation.

Continuing with the Victor Vector project, putting the various animation and graphical components together and introducing sound. How to use Movie Clip filters, blends, and alter the speed of a motion tween with custom ease in/ease out.

Continuing with the Victor Vector project, putting the various animation and graphical components together and introducing sound. How to use Movie Clip filters, blends, and alter the speed of a motion tween with custom ease in/ease out